. Does Ticketmaster have a stranglehold on concert ticketing — or is it just ‘bringing joy’.

To even attempt to win business, Dahlquist said, ticketing rivals needed to offer “retaliation insurance” to venues worried …
Read the full story at The Verge. In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. . After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists’ use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed a “flywheel” of power that forced venue customers to stay within its ecosystem. It threatened or retaliated against them when they considered leaving.